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Tudsamfa

@ Tudsamfa @lemmy.world

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I have commited the Num-Code for ™ to muscle memory.

Other interests include bicycles, bread making and DIY. I do own a 3D-printer and adore the Nintendo 3ds.

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • They are literally both ℵ1 though?

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Yes, but those are both the same infinite according to math, so no, they're still equal.

  • Non-US Lemmings, how is Christmas celebrated where you are?

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  • Rural Germany. Christmas time still starts in December/1st advent for me, although some houses have wintery decorations up the day they remove the Halloween ones, and the city has made some preparations for the coming Christmas markets today. Christmas markets are where people go buy Glühwein/mulled wine in a Christmassy atmosphere, a hot drink just tastes better in cold weather than in one's house (we drink it there as well, of course, can't enjoy Christmas sober).

    Advent traditions include an advent wreath, which is still really Christian in nature, and advent calendar, which has become entirely commercialised around toy brands and chocolate.

    The gift giving and the first proper look at the tree is done on Christmas Eve's Evening, after the religious members of the family went to Church. That evening we eat either raclette or hot pot/Chinese fondue, the other meal then a week later at Silvester. We have started to eat a locally sourced Christmas goose on Christmas day recently.

  • What's the oldest website that's still alive that you've found?

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  • No idea why this is the 3rd time this has come up now, but I just learned this year that an anti "barney the dinosaur" webpage is among the oldest still active ones, where you can shoot and stab him.

    Hate for children's media for being... for children has really come a long way. Now we hate them for legitimate reasons, like peppa pig for being bloody monarchists and Bluey for being Australian.

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • That doesn't change anything?

    You said you use the formal you more than Germans, but less than the "German speaking world". It's a bit weird to use that phrase to mean "any German speakers except Germans" I think, especially in the way you wrote it.

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • We use the formal you much less.Informal you is more common in other places

    "The "you" we use here is neither formal nor informal, but a secret third thing."

    No but seriously, what did you mean to say? Germany make up roughly 8/10 German speakers, so "most of the German speaking world, except Germany" doesn't really mean anything to me.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Restaurant fries and drinks.

    Was on a really tight budget for a time, so I know I can feed myself for a few Euros a day. Going back to fast food restaurants at all still instils some guilt in me, but there is 1 that has unbelievably good prices and I can still appreciate the convenience at times.

    But fries and drinks are just a scam with how big the profit margins are, and not even hard to prepare at home if you're ordering take out or have it delivered (I also don't pay for delivery, my bike is free).

  • Has Trick-or-Treating died in your area, and what is to blame?

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  • Neighbourhood is dying, new or expecting parents do not move here any more. And old folks get really aggressive when you dare go around as a young teen, for some reason.

  • YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT) model, which does not match with many studies.

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  • Sorry, that part was not meant to imply you specifically want to reduce safety standards, just that if you want to have it be competitive on the energy market, you would have to do something about that, or subsidise it by an absurd amount.

    But the point still stands, nuclear energy is expensive, and it's not because of subsidies to other energy sources. Please don't claim so next time.

  • YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT) model, which does not match with many studies.

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  • I'm pretty sure it's not subsidies, but safety standards. I'm not trying to pretend to understand Lazards "levelized cost of electricity", and their graphs are seem to be off by 20 or I don't read them correctly, but they are at least very clear that subsidies are taken out when they make their comparison. Nuclear is still the most expensive no matter how you slice it (except rooftop residential solar, but I think that gets around paying energy providers or something). Anyway, I'm more willing to trust them than the world nuclear association on if nuclear is price competitive.

    I'll grant you a better argument for next time: Nuclear is incredibly safe compared to other energy sources, but is uniquely held to a way higher safety standard than anything else. And reducing the cost of nuclear by reducing safety standards actually is unpopular, so politicians don't do it and the cost keeps rising.

    I'd still disagree on loosening safety restrictions, but at least that would be true, instead of blaming subsidies.

  • YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT) model, which does not match with many studies.

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  • Are there not better means of renewable energy generation

    Well, if you're going to claim that, I'll have you know that in our infinite wisdom to create an energy market, energy needs to be cheap to produce as well.

    No current nuclear power plant where I live (cost seems to be rather location dependant) is creating cheap energy, they're always more expensive than renewables. That's why the investments in them has increased so much over the last few years while nuclear is just trudging along in the race to replace fossil fuels.

  • What the most memorable moment from any video game?

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  • Ghost Trick's entire second half is filled with them, but you cannot describe them spoiler-free... "When he looks at you" is the best I can come up with.

    Return of the Obra Dinn, when you first look up in Abigail's death scene.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • Interesting what's written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

    Just like calling X "twitter" or "the hellsite", or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than "I like it that way". How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

  • What's your favorite Halloween costume that you went as?

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  • Plague doctor in 2020.

  • In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?

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  • Keys somewhere right, phone in the pocket inside my jacket, rest wherever.

  • Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?

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  • I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.

    I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • Ah, you know, can't complain.

    Maybe I'll take a vacation to the US someday and see what kind of bicycle infrastructure the worlds greatest economy can build.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • For being mandatory where I live, it sure is odd literally no one decided to draw some reflectors on the spokes.

  • Can you please draw a bicycle from memory (no looking/cheating)?

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  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Since it won't happen the other way around, how do I get people to approach ME in public?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    On a scale of 1 to 5, how offensive is the middle finger?

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    Vandalism Rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Extensively Tested Rule